Faculty and Staff

Department Faculty


Alyce Brady

Alyce Brady

Ph. D., Rosemary K. Brown Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Phone: 269.337.7065

Email: Alyce.Brady@kzoo.edu

Office: 310 Olds/Upton Hall

You can find Alyce Brady’s office hours here.

Interests: Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Computer Science Education

On sabbatical for the 2024-25 academic year.


Pam Cutter

Pam Cutter, Department Chair

Ph. D., Professor of Computer Science

Phone: 269.337.7064

Email: Pam.Cutter@kzoo.edu

Office: 203G Olds/Upton Hall

You can find Pam Cutter’s office hours here.

Interests: Computer Science Education, Computational Number Theory, Mobile Apps


Tasnim Gharaibeh

Ph.D., Bollinger Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Phone: 269.337.7526

Email: Tasnim.Gharaibeh@kzoo.edu

Office: 203F Olds/Upton Hall

You can find Tasnim Gharaibeh’s office hours here.

Interests: AI and Machine Learning Models, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, and Information Retrieval


Nicholas Polanco

Nicholas Polanco

Ph.D. Candidate at Michigan State University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Phone: 269.337.7098

Email: Nicholas.Polanco@kzoo.edu

Office: 208A Olds/Upton Hall

You can find Nicholas Polanco’s office hours here.

Interests: Autonomous Vehicle, Formal Methods of Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Cybercrime


Sandino Vargas-Perez

Sandino Vargas-Pérez

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science

Email: Sandino.VargasPerez@kzoo.edu

Office: 309 Olds/Upton Hall

You can find Sandino Vargas-Pérez’s office hours here.

Interests: High-Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, Computational Genomics, Data Structures and Compression


Related Faculty and Staff


Peter Erdi

Peter Erdi

Ph. D., Henry R. Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies

Phone: 269.337.5720

Email: Peter.Erdi@kzoo.edu

Office: 208B Olds/Upton Hall


Kristen Eldred

Kristen Eldred

Office Coordinator

Phone: 269.337.7100

Email: Kristen.Eldred@kzoo.edu

Office: 203 Olds/Upton Hall